TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.::TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.
Hasn’t stuff like this been repeatedly ruled illegal and unenforceable?
Yup, but it only matters if you have the means to argue it in court.
The system works*!
* If you’re filthy rich.
As far as I know only the US would even humor such stupidity. In my country (Australia) they wouldn’t even let it go to court since the common law right to legal justice overrides contract law.
I didn’t think legal contract could contain “forever”? Which is why Disney’s contract has the death of the last living monarch.
Last living monarch of … Just in general?
A contract related to Disney in Florida wanted a forever, couldn’t legally do it, but you could do a timeframe from a person, so they picked the last British monarch after a certain birth cutoff, essentially giving them something like 300 years (very rough estimate don’t remember well enough) in a contract that wasn’t intended to really do more than 100.
Its crazy they could do that in america
One of my public utilities just updated their ToS to waive a right to class action for users. Utter shit.
Imagine if our lawmakers would take the time to make giving up legal recourse in contracts illegal. Not just unenforceable, but just having it in the terms be an immediate, actionable violation.
